Israel history

Visible everywhere, powerful nowhere: The paradox facing Israeli women

Women are everywhere in Israeli life but absent where power and protection are decided

|ByCHANI KAPLAN
Golda Meir, Israel’s first and only female prime minister, led through a small circle of senior advisers known as ‘Golda’s Kitchen’ from 1969 until 1974 – an exception in a political system where women’s authority has remained limited and largely isolated.
Edouard Cukierman at the GoforIsrael 2023 Investment Conference.

History is happening in 'Israel Valley, The Technology Shield of Innovation' - book excerpt

'The geographical and academic proximity of hi-tech, venture capital, and young entrepreneurs underpins one of Israel’s recipes for success.'

|ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
The dramatic mountaintop site rising 650 meters above the Jordan Valley

Israeli archaeologists uncover remains of dramatic mountaintop royal palace

“It sheds light on the architectural style and the function of the site, which is not mentioned by Josephus, our only historical source for the period,” Dr. Raviv, director of the excavation, said.

|ByTPS
A RALLY IN 2015 at Rabin Square in Tel Aviv marking 20 years since the assassination of Yitzhak Rabin.

My Word: Remembering Israel's assassinated prime minister Yitzhak Rabin, 30 years on

Yitzhak Rabin’s legacy has been eroded over the past three decades, but the lesson about the dangers of political extremism must not be allowed to die.

|ByLIAT COLLINS

How history and the present will shape Israel post-October 7 - opinion

Transformations don’t just happen to Israel, they are chosen by the Israeli people. While Israel is still at war, Israelis will someday have to determine how October 7 will define the country.

MARCH 3, 2024ByURI PILICHOWSKI
IDF SOLDIERS visit the site of the Supernova music festival massacre in Re’im, near the Israel-Gaza border. While the Israeli people are still at war, it is too early to fully understand the effects of the Hamas attacks on the country and the people, says the writer.

Israeli research uses Earth's magnetic field to verify event in Bible's Book of Kings

The discovery was achieved by scientists from Tel Aviv University (TAU), the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (HU), Bar-Ilan University (BIU) in Ramat Gan, and Ariel University in Samaria.

JANUARY 4, 2024ByJUDY SIEGEL-ITZKOVICH
One of the studied burnt mudbricks.

Labeling Jews as 'settler-colonialists' flips the truth - opinion

One only need to recall the UNRWA definition of a Palestinian refugee to realize the basic truth of counter-Palestinian demography claims.

JANUARY 4, 2024ByYISRAEL MEDAD
IDF SOLDIERS stand guard while Palestinians and left-wing activists protest near the Jewish settlement of Elon Moreh, east of Nablus, in 2022

On This Day in 1948: Israel crosses Egyptian border en route to independence

Operation Horev was the last operation on the Egyptian front during the war, helping Israel recapture the Negev and expelled the Egyptian military from Israel’s territory.

DECEMBER 28, 2023ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
Operation Horev, 1948

Earliest systematic weapons production dating back 7,000 years found in Israel

The findings show the mass production of slingstones from the Southern Levant dating back to the Early Chalcolithic period (c. 5800–4500 BCE),

NOVEMBER 22, 2023ByJUDY SIEGEL-ITZKOVICH
The ancient slingstones: the earliest evidence for warfare in the region

What lessons did the Israel Air Force learn from the Yom Kippur War?

The war marks a 'before and after' for the Israeli air force, which continues to apply its lessons to today's changing landscape.

OCTOBER 5, 2023ByMICHAEL STARR
Israeli soldiers during the Yom Kippur War.

Israel uses AI to uncover lost Yom Kippur War pages, 50 years on

Archives use AI to speed up disclosures, reveal more impact on civilian front.

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023ByYONAH JEREMY BOB
Prime minister Golda Meir, accompanied by her defense minister Moshe Dayan, meets with soldiers on the Golan Heights after the 1973 Yom Kippur War.

Israeli archaeologists unearth building destroyed during Babylonian siege of Jerusalem

The building, dubbed 'Building 100', had once belong to an elite member of Jerusalem's society, until it was destroyed by fire in 586 BCE.

AUGUST 1, 2023ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
Representational image of fire raging during the Babylonian destruction of Jerusalem.

Rebel Jewish coin dating to anti-Roman revolt discovered in Israel

A rare half-shekel coin dug up in the Ein Gedi nature reserve was inscribed with the words “The Holy Jerusalem” in Hebrew.

JULY 25, 2023ByJUDY SIEGEL-ITZKOVICH
The silver coin, as found, showing the obverse face with the chalice in the center, and above it the letter “Aleph” marking Year 1 of the outbreak of the revolt, and the inscription “half-shekel”, the value of the coin.

Most Israeli youth do not know who Zionist leader Jabotinsky was, poll finds

The survey conducted by the right-wing polling agency shows a remarkable gap in Israel's youth regarding Ze'ev Jabotinsky.

JULY 17, 2023ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
ZE’EV JABOTINSKY wearing the uniform of the Jewish Legion of the British army, with sisters Bela and Nina.